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Unformatted Preview College of Administrative and Financial Sciences Assignment 2
Deadline: 16/11/2019 @ 23:59 Course Name: Spreadsheet Decision Modeling Student’s
Name: Course Code: MGT425 Student’s ID Number: Semester: I CRN: Academic Year:
1440/1441 H For Instructor’s Use only Instructor’s Name: Students’ Grade: Marks
Obtained/Out of Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM
CAREFULLY • The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via
allocated folder. • Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted. • Students are
advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor
presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page. • Students must
mention question number clearly in their answer. • Late submission will NOT be accepted. •
Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other
resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions. • All
answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures
containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism). • Submissions without
this cover page will NOT be accepted. Course Learning Outcomes-Covered PLO Course
Learning Outcome (CLO) Question 2.1 Ability to find some structured way of dealing with
complex managerial decision problems Question 1 2.3 Demonstrate the solution for
deciding when and which decision models to use for specific problems Question 3 2.5 Apply
powerful ways of spreadsheet as a ubiquitous tool in managerial career Question 2, 4 Please
go to the Chapter 3 “Spreadsheet Engineering” of our textbook: Powell, S. G., & Baker, K. R.
(2014). Management Science: The art of modeling with spreadsheets (4th ed.). Wiley. In this
Chapter read the Case: “The Advertising Budget Decision” and answer the following
questions. Assignment Questions: (5-Marks) 1. Build the Spreadsheet for the Advertising
Budget Decision/Problem (2-Marks) 2. Draw the Influence Chart that helps us to clearly
identify outputs (Profit) and decisions (Advertising). (1-Marks) 2. Write the guidelines for
designing a Spreadsheet. (1-Marks) 4. List the important steps of building a Workbook (1-
Marks) Answers:
